Simon’s relive https://www.relive.cc/view/vPOp1DR9wR6
Simon and I get away from ramp at 0700 it was a fresh morning wet suit and beanie for me. There was a light westerly in close that left the sea with a bit of a ripple to start with. Knight Island our first way point with the breeze shifting to SW that may of created a bit of lump working slightly against rising tide. Hoping that it would settle out further as wind forecasted. Would be in for a long haul otherwise fortunately the wind played out to forecast. I don’t have a battery for my pocket camera that has been such an easy reliable device for recording trips so pictures are scarce.
About 15ks out from Knight I spotted Whales jumping along heading for us and passed along side. My first spotting for this year. We arrived Knight just after 0800 and decide to move on with out beaching after a short break.
I have had this sitting as draft since August this year and picking it up now to try and complete so may be bit reduced like my memory.
Our run across to the Beverly Group to down the inside (west) of Noel Island it was a good sea. Without being flat it had this annoying little wave length that created like a Hobby Horse effect at our cruise speed. We could of tramped it to skip across the top but not without sucking our fuel. Simon seemed content with it so I just grin and bear it to.
Not long after leaving The Beverly Group it did flatten out to a glass. Across to the beautiful West Bay of Middle Island of The Percy Group. We anchor up just n front of the famous A Frame known, visited and membered by yachties from all round the world for years.
Part of our mission is Tramps addition to the thousands of paraphernalia at the A Frame. Simon and I found a good spot for it. Paul and I put this together with some input from our regular crew.
Some drone practice for me and off we head deciding to go back to Beverly Group for quick fish. I strike a undersized coral trout.
Then I have a tussle with this Trevally.
We head home on absolute glass mirrored for 80 klms at 50-60kph. Found if I focused on a object in the distance I kept getting the strangest feeling like a lift off as if taking off into the air so real it scared me and I would break the focus. Of course I kept doing it not believing it was happening. We pulled up at one stage and I made Simon aware of it. He said that if he focused just in front of his Ski he got the feeling of going under. I had that to but that was no fun. Back at ramp out of the water I mentioned it again and he said yes he had the same affect.
Try to avoid landing back at ramp around low water of 1.4M but failed. Best avoided managed OK but very muddy water and no doubt our jets would of sucked up some slurry at minimum. I will be blogging more often and a 280k reef run will start now.
Following is more for my reference and helpful in planning future adventures.
Tide times are important at a lot of ramps sometimes critical I wouldn’t say at Hay Pt was but definitely helpful. There is no jetty access in lower tide levels, not that it concerns us there is a beach that does have a couple of rocks to watch for.
Jet Ski North Queensland 
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